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He stood. “I will go make myself more respectable. Shall we take a ride after I have washed and changed?”

Mia stared, unable to fathom how he could not see how aroused she’d become watching him. She took his arm and walked with him toward the door. “I have a better idea, my lord.”

“Oh?” he asked, allowing himself to be led up the stairs.

Mia marched him toward his chambers, flinging open the door before Adam could reach the handle. Sayer stood inside the room, his arms filled with a stack of linen.

“You are not needed here, Sayer. I will valet His Lordship.”

Mia turned to her silent, stupefied husband and pulled at his cravat, deftly removing it in one motion. She smiled up at Adam, who was shaking his head at her. He mouthed the word naughty.

“Have a bath made ready for His Lordship in an hour,” Mia ordered.

“Very good, my lady,” Sayer murmured, as if the mistress of the house came into her husband’s chambers every day and acted as valet.

Adam ignored his servant, never taking his eyes from Mia.

She grabbed his coat as the door closed and roughly pulled it down, enjoying his shocked sputter of laughter as she yanked it off his arms and dropped it to the floor before moving to the buttons of his waistcoat.

“I believe you are trying to make me blush, my lady.”

“I see no sign of a blush yet, my lord.” But she would, before she was finished with him.

He braced his feet as she pulled off his waistcoat and flung it behind her.

His eyes flickered from the discarded garment back to her face. “You are perhaps the most careless valet I have ever seen,” he said mildly.

Mia shoved him onto the bed before turning her back to him and straddling his booted leg, looking back over her shoulder. “Push,” she ordered.

He bit his lower lip and shook with laughter, but brought his other foot up and gave her bottom a firm push. She dropped his boot and grabbed his other foot, taking the same position.

“While your valeting skills leave something to be desired, you are the most attractive bootjack I’ve ever used,” he said, pushing against her buttock with his stockinged foot.

Mia tossed his other boot off to the side and then converged upon him, deftly unbuttoning his breeches and shoving him onto his back.

He lifted his hips and she yanked them off, pulling off each stocking while she was in the process. She hiked her skirts to her waist to climb on top of him but found herself on her back before she knew what had happened.

He stared down at her. “I’ll take over from here, darling.”

* * *

Mia pushed herself up onto her elbows and crawled backward. He lunged forward to grab her, but she was faster. But she had nowhere to go and the headboard cut off her retreat.

“You’ve reached the end of the road,” he said, backing her up against the ornately carved wood. She bent close, rather than trying to get away, flicking her tongue over one of his nipples.

“Witch,” he hissed, his eyes closing.

Her skilled tongue worked his nipples, alternating painful little nips with soothing sucking while his erection pulsed between them.

“You are so beautiful,” she murmured, her sharp teeth catching him and pulling, the pain exquisite. “Ever since the day you kissed me at my father’s house, I become wet whenever I think of making love to you.”

Adam’s brain severed its connection with the rest of his body. He slammed her against the headboard, tearing her gown in his haste to spread her legs. He slid his hands beneath her bottom and lifted her up, his fingers digging into her flesh as he impaled her.

She bit the side of his neck hard enough to make him cry out and he lifted her higher, positioning her for deeper penetration, grunting and straining as he drove into her. He crushed her breasts against him, his muscles screaming with effort, her legs tight around his hips as he slammed into her like a battering ram.

He heard an odd noise and realized it was Mia and that she was laughing with each brutal thrust.

She met his startled gaze with eyes that were fired with pleasure. “Oh Adam, forgive me,” she gasped, “I am only laughing because I am so happy I cannot help it.”